He went to Ningyuan to serve as county magistrate, but his family was still in Tanzhou because his old mother did not move to Ningyuan County with him.
However, when Liu Mao returned to Tanzhou in the evening, he only hurried home to see his old mother. After dinner, he went straight to Pan's house.
I met Pan Kui, the eldest daughter of the Pan family, at the Pan family.
Pan Kui seems to be stronger again.
At this time, the two of them were sitting face to face in the pavilion in Pan's garden.
Pan Kui spoke in an angry voice and asked with a smile: "How is Liu County Cheng doing in Ningyuan County these days?"
Liu Mao naturally came to report the situation to Pan Kui. After hearing this, he said: "Fortunately, I have contacted many businessmen and officials in Ningyuan County, and they have all expressed their opinions that they will not be too cooperative in tax matters.
Lu Liang, it should be impossible for Lu Liang to get an A-level rating in the annual review this year. But... these days I have read the documents and files of Ningyuan County in the past two years, and I have also inquired about Lu Liang's personality, and found that he is quite an official.
For being upright and honest, there is nothing you can do about it."
"hehe."
Pan Kui just chuckled, "Isn't it possible that Liu County Cheng admires Lu Liang?"
"No, no."
Liu Mao shook his head repeatedly, "No matter how upright and honest he is, you will make a lot of mistakes if you mess with the lady. I just think it's a bit tricky."
"He didn't mess with me, I just didn't want He Zhengci to die in an unknown way."
Pan Kui said.
Then he added: "You don't have to be too anxious. It doesn't matter if there is no handle. If he cannot achieve political achievements, he will not be able to continue to stay in Ningyuan County."
Liu Mao looked deeply at Pan Kui and said, "I understand."
It doesn't matter whether he can find any clues about Lu Liang. What he wants to do is to cause trouble for Lu Liang and make Lu Liang's annual review rating as bad as possible.
After a moment of silence, Liu Mao said again: "By the way, there is one more thing. Lu Fang has been accepted as a student by Bachelor Yu. Will this... be some trouble?"
"What's the trouble?"
Pan Kui looked unconcerned and said, "I also know about this. That boy is lucky. However, Academician Yu has already returned to his official career, and he has not had much interaction with the officials of Tanzhou Prefecture before, so it doesn't matter.
Furthermore, Lu Liang himself is incompetent, do you think Scholar Yu will speak up for him?"
Liu Mao said nothing and just chuckled.
The more these high-ranking officials return to their jobs, the more they care about their reputation!
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The next day.
He Zhigao came a little later than usual.
However, Lu Fang knew that he was coming, so he did not go to Yu Yuanwei's home.
Seeing the smile on He Zhigao's face, he asked: "Have that big pot been moved?"
"Moved over."
He Zhigao grinned and nodded, "I also brought two jars of wine over. Young Master, should we go and try it now?"
"OK."
Lu Fang nodded and said.
Then he and He Zhigao went to the house we just bought yesterday.
The still and two jars of wine have been placed in the patio, along with a lot of firewood and some empty wine jars.
Lu Fang had never tried distilling before, so he silently said in his mind, "Distillation."
The system is not responding.
"Wine brewing."
The system is still unresponsive.
It seems that there are limits to the ability to learn skills independently. Not all skills can be learned.
Maybe winemaking is more complicated than calligraphy and equestrianism?
Or maybe it involves 21st century craftsmanship?
Lu Fang naturally couldn't think of the reason, but he was just a little helpless.
Fortunately, when I searched for Jiannanchun brewing methods before, there were also specific distillation procedures.
Lu Fang took He Zhigao to explore slowly.
In this way, the whole process turned out to be quite smooth.
Light the fire, add firewood, pour the wine and fermented grains, and add water to cool down.
After only a few minutes passed, liquid began to drip out of the pipe next to the still.
Lu Fang hurriedly said to He Zhigao: "Hurry up and take the things."
He Zhigao picked up an empty wine jar and picked it up.
After a few more minutes, the liquid in the tube no longer ticked, but flowed down.
Lu Fang knew that this was almost the first time the wine had been produced.
He asked He Zhigao to step aside and placed an empty wine jar underneath.
The alcohol content of the first wine is the highest.
Without thinking, He Zhigao couldn't help but secretly taste it. Then he choked and blushed. He stuck out his tongue and kept fanning it with his hands, "Spicy! So spicy, so spicy!"
Lu Fang couldn't help laughing when he looked at it, "This freshly purified first wine is of course spicy, and it needs to be aged and blended."
The alcohol content of this wine is probably 70 or 80 degrees.
He Zhigao took a long time to recover, and looked at the small can of wine in his hand, "Master, I'm afraid this wine won't be sold, right?"
Lu Fang smiled and said: "Of course this cannot be sold, but it will have to be blended later! The blended wine will naturally taste different."
He was very happy to be able to drink wine so smoothly.
Victory is at hand.
All day long, the two people were busy working in the patio.
Both jars of wine have been distilled, so there is of course some loss, but not much.
When the technology matures in the future, the loss will definitely be smaller.
Lu Fang couldn't help but feel silly and happy when he looked at the raw wines held in small jars according to their approximate strength.
He Zhigao also giggled beside him.
Dayu Dynasty’s new liquor is officially released.
Even Lu Fang and He Zhigao could not imagine what kind of sensation this new type of liquor would cause in Dayu in the future.
Of course, this is a later story.
Lu Fang taught He Zhigao that he no longer planned to focus on wine making.
The time for the provincial examination is getting closer and closer, so this is his top priority right now.
In the next few days, He Zhigao was so diligent that Lu Fang even looked at him with suspicion. During the day, he watched at the alms stall, and at night he went to the distillery to distill.
He really managed to recruit a few people.
They were all poor homeless people around Ningyuan, two men, two children about thirteen or fourteen years old, and a woman with a baby.
Life is not easy for many people these days.
Those at the bottom are those who are considered good as tenants, but there are also those who work part-time to make ends meet, those who were bullied and had to leave their homes, or those whose families were destroyed due to natural disasters, or something else.
The reason. Lu Fang did not ask how these people ended up in such a situation, because he knew very well that he was not yet capable of taking care of the injustices in the world. All he could do was to give these people a place to stay.